Electronic voting firm drops legal case

[CatWoman]

Dec. 1, 2003 | SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- In a major victory for free speech enthusiasts on the Internet, Diebold Inc. has agreed not to sue voting rights advocates who publish leaked documents about the alleged security breaches of electronic voting.

A Diebold spokesman promised in a conference call Monday with U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel and attorneys from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that it would not sue dozens of students, computer scientists and ISP operators who received cease-and-desist letters from August to October.

http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/12/01/diebold/index.html

[Dover]

1. EXcellent!

Bravo!

[Myra]

10. Dover, I know this is off topic, but it's important...

Why are you using a three stooges picture without Curly???
Why why why?!

[Gman]

2. Did Diebold find out it's losing the PR war?

and calling too much attention to it's crappy software?

[Patriot_Spear]

5. Spot on- People were starting to ask, 'What are they hiding?'

Bad day for Diebold- the EFF is going to seek damages and Attorney's fees.

Of course you have to ask yourself- what could the EFF have found out during the discovery process?

[jamesinca]

3. Maybe they dropped it because they had no case

Maybe they dropped it because it would expose their dirty little secrets in a court. Maybe they dropped it because they do not want to draw attention to the cause, just let it ride off into the sunset. I would be interested in knowing why they dropped it.

[Zan_of_Texas]

8. According to one of the EFF staff

who was at the arguments, Diebold's case just didn't have what it needed to win. She said NObody was on Diebold's side.

Also: coincidence or no, D Kucinich posted the link to the Diebold memos on his government website on a Thursday, and called for a Judiciary Committee meeting on it on a Monday, and it was that same Monday that Diebold said it was withdrawing its cease and desist letters.

[librechik]

4. Somebody Sue Diebold!!

plllleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaassssssssssssseee!!!!!

[sujan]

6. ripe for class action

if the facts are there.

[Patriot_Spear]

7. Didn't you read the article?

The EFF is going to seek damages under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. So in other words

Diebold didn't have a case. Yahoo.

I knew those cease and desist letters were worth less than a roll of toilet paper. Glad to see they didn't get away with their intimidation.

[RC]

11. Ahhh... A roll of toilet paper

can be quite valuable in the correct circumstances. :hi:
It's the used stuff that doesn't have much value.

[dusty64]

12. Good news, this

was a case completely without merit. diebold is looking more foolish by the day, yet they've done a great job of bribing/brainwashing a large number of election officials who now appear to work for them instead of the People.

[bearfan454]

13. Here is the yahoo take on it

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031202/ap_on_hi_te/electronic_voting_lawsuit

[Spazito]

14. Kick

*

[creativelcro]

15. why was the thread David initiated locked ?

[creativelcro]

16. Ah, duplicate...

[TacticalPeek]

17. Hats off to the BBV activists and all patriots who helped!

:toast:

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

http://www.house.gov/kucinich/issues/voting.htm

http://www.plan9.org/



And now, to dip my toe into the fresh waters of freedom:

"Over that time I have become increasingly concerned about the apparent lack of concern over the practice of writing contracts to provide products and services which do not exist and then attempting to build these items on an unreasonable timetable with no written plan, little to no time for testing, and minimal resources. It also seems to be an accepted practice to exaggerate our progress and functionality to our customers and ourselves then make excuses at delivery time when these products and services do not meet expectations."

Brian Clubb Resignation Letter

:evilgrin:

[proud patriot]

18. YAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

:-)